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freedom

dust November 4, 2020

we’re the wind
roaring through raggedy trees
on a wild november day

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fish

dust November 3, 2020

a fish doesn’t exist
outside of brown leaves drifting
over the pavement

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On Religion: Chris Hedges, Heresy, Christian Orthodoxy, and Imperialism

dust October 29, 2020

abstract: Hedges’ claim that “the Christian Right” has contaminated “the Christian religion“ with “aspects” of “American” society—“imperialism, capitalism, chauvinism, violence and bigotry”— that are alien to Christianity is historically false. These evils have characterized the most dominant strands of Christianity throughout its history. Hedges’ denunciation of the Christian right as heretical implicitly enacts an orthodoxy that has authorized and even required Christian “imperialism, … chauvinism, violence and bigotry.” When Hedges denounces the Christian right as heretical, he implicitly uses the orthodox logic that equates imperial might with sacred rightness, precisely the logic that the historical Jesus, according to a great deal of historical evidence, subverted.

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the city 1

dust October 21, 2020

climbing out of the lapping waves
up the rocks
making the breakwater

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masses: memorial

dust October 20, 2020

the evenly spaced
black and white pillars
still stand over against

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masses: after the fire

dust October 19, 2020

toxic clouds settle
into evacuated
burnt-out neighborhoods

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Greenport 2020: transformations

dust October 18, 2020

a piece of smooth grey driftwood
draws eyes into
a sinuous body

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Greenport 2020: others’ worlds

dust October 14, 2020

five a.m.
patter of skittering squirrels on the roof
above me

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Greenport 2020: on the shore of Long Beach Bay

dust October 12, 2020

a small grey-backed shark lay dead
white belly up
on the mottled gravel

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Greenport 2020 3: civilization

dust October 11, 2020

in the late morning
the roaring warring lawn mowers
and leaf blowers

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